Exodus 10:4
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4 For if you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.
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Exodus 10:13
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13 So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord drove an east wind[a] over the land all that day and all night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
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Exodus 10:14
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14 The locusts came up over the whole land of Egypt and settled down over all its territory. Never before had there been such a fierce swarm of locusts, nor will there ever be again.
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Judges 6:5
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5 For they would come up with their livestock, and their tents would appear as thick as locusts. They would be too many to count when they came into the land to lay it waste.
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Judges 7:12
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12 (A)The Midianites, Amalekites, and all the Kedemites were lying in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could not be counted, for they were as many as the sands on the seashore.
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Psalm 105:34
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34 He spoke and the locusts came,
grasshoppers without number.(A)
Joel 1:4
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4 What the cutter left,
the swarming locust has devoured;
What the swarming locust left,
the hopper has devoured;
What the hopper left,
the consuming locust[a] has devoured.
Footnotes
- 1:4 Cutter…swarming locust…hopper…consuming locust: these names may refer to various species of locusts, or to some phases in the insect’s life cycle, or to successive waves of locusts ravaging the countryside.
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